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It does not get any messier or more chaotic than this. Since 2009, when Australia’s Future Submarine Program (FSP) known as Project SEA 1000, began to take shape, strategists and policy makers have been keen to pursue the next big White Elephant of defence spending. And few areas of an already wasteful area of public expenditure are more costly – often mindlessly so – than submarines.
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Read more: Nuclear White Elephants: Australia’s New Submarine Deal
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ANALYSIS: The AUKUS partnership has New Zealand’s only formal defence ally, Australia, turning nuclear-powered. And it has highlighted a sizeable difference in military might.
Australia, with the AUKUS defence pact announced on Thursday, has thrown its chips in with the United States and United Kingdom, promising to acquire at least six nuclear-powered submarines and pile up missiles in the face of an increasingly strident China.
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New Zealand is being labelled "a joke" on defence in the aftermath of its exclusion from the new AUKUS pact.
The defence pact between Australia, the US and the UK will formalise cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, and is seen as a counterweight to China's growing power in the region. Under the deal, the countries will share advanced technologies, including supplying nuclear-powered, but conventionally armed, submarines for the Royal Australian Navy.
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Taiwan has said a record number of Chinese military jets flew into its airspace today.
The defence ministry said 25 aircraft including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers entered its so-called air defence identification zone (ADIZ).
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China has lobbied the Australian parliament to help it join a major regional trading pact, describing the strength of Chinese trade with Australia and avoiding mention of billions of dollars in punitive sanctions imposed by Beijing.
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ANALYSIS: Only once in its history has America handed over a nuclear submarine propulsion plant, the crown jewels of military technology, to another country.
That was 63 years ago when America helped the Royal Navy to go nuclear. Now it will take that dramatic step again.
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Read more: Aukus: What does the Australian nuclear submarine deal mean for non-proliferation?
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Transport officials have been directed to assess how supplies like food will be impacted with two Wellington-Picton ferries out of action.
Already frustrated at delays, truckies' and food suppliers' concerns have worsened with news the Interislander won't honour freight booking over the next two weeks.
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Read more: Govt wants answers on Cook Strait ferries cancellations
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With the Afghanistan withdrawal allowing the US to sharpen its focus on the Indo Pacific, Dr Wayne Mapp considers New Zealand’s position in the context of an energised or expanded Quad grouping.
The end game in Afghanistan proved to be as traumatic as was ever feared. The sight of thousands of panicked Afghans at Kabul airport, with the ultimate denouement of ISIS-K terror bombings seemed a stark illustration of the impotence of the West. It was an ignominious end to the 20-year intervention by the US-led coalition, which at its peak involved more than 50 nations.
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Read more: The failure of US counterinsurgency and the rise of the Indo Pacific
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2021/09/17/afghanistan-counterinsurgency-failure-indo-pacific-quad/
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